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Last week, at the Paris meeting of parliamentarians from NATO nations, U.S. General Lauris Norstad, wearing his hat as NATO supreme commander, Europe, proposed creation of a NATO nuclear force. A committee of NATO parliamentarians approved a resolution declaring that a NATO nuclear force of some type was "urgent." Norstad's speech and the resolution were regarded as pointed prods to Washington to get going on the specifics. NATO also wondered what had become of Secretary of State Christian Herter's promise of a year ago to present a broad plan for a new NATO political and economic...
...nation to abandon conscription since the establishment of the alliance.* To reassure its friends, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government cheerily explained that it was merely replacing the tramp, tramp, tramp of conventional forces (which NATO sorely lacks) with the more economical nuclear bang (which NATO Commander Lauris Norstad already has at his disposal...
...smoothing over differences, the Bonn meeting emphasized the real discord De Gaulle has brought to the Western alliance by his dream of a new French grandeur and his demand for an atomic striking force of his own. The answer may well be a plan proposed by SHAPE Commander Lauris Norstad last week to create a nuclear deterrent force within NATO made up presumably of land-and sea-based units manned by Europeans but commanded by Americans...
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Air Force General Lauris Norstad, 53, was bedded in Munich's U.S. Army hospital after suffering a "very slight coronary occlusion" while golfing in Bavaria...
Paris and NATO's General Lauris Norstad that they were thinking of asking Spain for military installations of unspecified type. (Strauss apparently did not bother to mention that he had already opened discussion of the matter with Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando María Castiella y Maíz two months earlier, and he never did get around to telling the other eleven NATO members.) From all three allies and from Norstad came the same advice: Strauss should forget about Spain and try to get the bases he needed from NATO nations. Undeterred, Strauss sent off a military mission...